M. Scott Peck Quotes
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.
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Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
